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Chapter 21 – The Roaring Life of the 1920s

Chapter 21 – The Roaring Life of the 1920s. Pgs. 610-639. Changing Ways of Life. Cities New York and Chicago were the main place to live Museums, art exhibits, sport events, nightclubs, movies Rural life vs. City life was a very controversial subject

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Chapter 21 – The Roaring Life of the 1920s

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  1. Chapter 21 – The Roaring Life of the 1920s Pgs. 610-639

  2. Changing Ways of Life • Cities • New York and Chicago were the main place to live • Museums, art exhibits, sport events, nightclubs, movies • Rural life vs. City life was a very controversial subject • Women had more opportunities to do what they wanted…weren’t restricted

  3. Changing Ways of Life • Speakeasies and Bootleggers • 18th Amendment – prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages • Prohibition • Led to smuggling and underground clubs • Organized Crime • Chicago was the center of mobs and gangs

  4. Changing Ways of Life • Science and Religion • Fundamentalism – Protestant movement that wanted to stop the teaching of evolution in the schools. • John T. Scopes • 24 year old biology teacher who read Civic Biology which basically said that humans evolved from a single-celled organism into a multi-cellular organism. • Scopes trial was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American Society. • Scopes found guilty and fined $100 • Trial was a huge deal and thousands of people came to watch

  5. The Twenties Woman • The flapper • Emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of day. • College degrees • Shorter hem line • Dated • Took on male roles

  6. The Twenties Woman • Double Standard – a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women. Required women to observe stricter standards of behavior than men did. • Work • Secretaries, doctors, lawyers, probation officers, store clerks • Families • Higher divorce rates • Lower birth rates • Children spent most of their days at school or out with friends…not family oriented like it used to be.

  7. Education and Popular Culture • Higher enrollment in schools • Radio • People were able to hear news from around the world. • Sports • Babe Ruth • Charles A. Lindbergh – first non-stop solo fight across Atlantic. • Movies • Walt Disney – Mickey Mouse Steamboat • Writers • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Ernest Hemingway

  8. The Harlem Renaissance • Great Migration • 1.5 million African Americans moved North • Race riots • NAACP • Stronger enrollment • More active in creating equal rights and legislation

  9. The Harlem Renaissance • Marcus Garvey and the UNIA • Immigrant from Jamaica who formed and organization that called for African Americans to form their own nation. • Should move back to Africa and leave the United States • Phased out when he was deported

  10. The Harlem Renaissance • Harlem Renaissance • Started in Harlem, New York • A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture. • Writers: Langston Hughes, Claude McKay • Jazz: Louis Armstrong, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington

  11. Links • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRveIIe4uAs&feature=related Charleston • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svvCj4yhYc flappers • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g59y65aEW_Icapone • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_xOeHLEPNM&feature=related gangs • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIIQTSw3hUY&feature=related movie (50min on gangs) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozMmVlInb0&feature=relatedharlem renaissance

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